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New York City Civic Engagement Commission
1 Centre Street, New York, NY, USAThe Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.
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Penda
AustraliaPenda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.
VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.
Passport
128 S Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202, USAPassport transforms the way cities manage their operations by reducing operational complexity and delivering intelligent data.
Dominion
AfricaDominion makes data available to help add context and authority to public discourse and policy-making on vital issues of land ownership.
Managing uncertainty in government modelling
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets
Planning 4 Informality
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.
Facebook, OECD and World Bank Measuring Business Sentiment
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceFacebook, World Bank and the OECD launched a measure of business sentiment based on a “Future of Business Survey” questioning companies that use their Facebook pages to connect with customers.
Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
Ghanoonban
TehranUsing modern technologies will facilitate the possibility of public participation, and will provide a platform for people’s active presence in governance, which will lead into the improvement of governance quality
Worldie – Social Media for Good
San Diego, CAWorldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.
Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)
Parliamentary Monitoring Group, 2nd floor, Associated Magazines, 21 St. Johns Street, Cape Town 8001PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.
Ryecatcher
420 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025, United StatesRyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.
Cartegraph
3600 Digital Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003, USACartegraph makes modern operations management software for local governments.
Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...
Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.
coUrbanize
33 Arch Street, Boston, MA 02110, USAcoUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.
DGI curates focused, in-depth programs where technical communities gather to share their knowledge and success. DGI delivers substantial, useful information
A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
Demander Justice
FranceDemander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.
New America’s Public Interest Technology Fellowship Program is an ambitious new initiative designed to support an emerging public interest technology sector in America.
The must-attend gigabit technology conference for city and community leaders.
Ballot Scout
Brooklyn, NYBallot Scout returns confidence to the vote-by-mail process.
PersonalData.IO
Impact Hub Geneva, Rue Fendt, Geneva, SwitzerlandA collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options
TenderBase
EuropeThis tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in further advocacy for more transparent procurement as well as to spot corruption using red flag indicators.
Tracka
55 Moleye Street, Lagos, NigeriaLaunched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
SMS for Justice
India (Bhārat)SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.
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MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.
Gavel.io
United States of America (the)Users can use the guided workflows to find legal assistance.
JobKraftwerk
Germany (Deutschland)The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.
Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.
Visualization and Data Analytics Lab (ViDA)
New York University, New York, NY, USAThe Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.
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Creative Placemaking Policy Fellows
Arizona State UniversityIt is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.
New/Mode
321 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 2T2, CanadaNew/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.
DATAJUSTICE project
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UKThis project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication
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